
Brocade Network Advisor IP User Manual 41
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Chapter
4
Discovery
In this chapter
•IP discovery overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
•VDX/VCS discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
•Logical chassis cluster mode discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
•Configuring IP profile discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
•Configuring IP simple discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
•IP SNMP credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
•Default IP user credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
•IP Object identifier filters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
•Defining global setting preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
•IP discovery profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
•Individual IP device discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
•IP Rediscovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
•Host discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
•VM Manager discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
IP discovery overview
Discovery only displays products that are assigned to your area of responsibility (AOR). For more
information about user accounts, refer to “Areas of responsibility” on page 206.
You must have the Discover Setup - IP privilege to configure and run discovery. For more information
about privileges, refer to “User Privileges” on page 1321.
You must have the All IP Products AOR (area of responsibility) in your user account to discover new
products. For more information about user accounts, refer to “User accounts” on page 196.
IP discovery requires Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) or Telnet support on the device to
determine device reachability.
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